Linux RMS Gateway

• To get a copy of the repository:

git clone https://github.com/nwdigitalradio/rmsgw

• NOTE: Installation & configuration scripts & notes live in n7nix/rmsgw

Installation - overview

Build Requirements

• Install AX.25 library & support utilities
• xutils-dev libxml2 libxml2-dev

Installation/runtime requirements

• AX.25 kernel support
• libax25 runtime
• python 2.7 or greater
• python-requests

Install AX.25 library & support utilities

Install & configure Linux RMS Gateway

• Currently (3/2017) RMS Gateway needs to be built from source
  • Goal to make it a Debian package
• There are some scripts that automate the process which looks like this:
  • Download source as a zipped tarball.
  • Untar source
  • Build source
  • Install result
  • Edit config files

Installing AX.25 library, tools & apps

• Use a script, it's easier

Basic AX.25 support packages:

• libax25 - runtime library
• ax25-tools - utilities
• ax25-apps - applications

RMS Gateway Installation scripts

Install notes & scripts

• Charles Schuman K4GBB has excellent notes & install scripts for the Raspberry Pi here

  • (http://k4gbb.no-ip.org/docs/raspberry.html)

• The install script in n7nix/rmsgw uses Charles' script modified to include all the necessary steps from his notes here

  • (https://github.com/nwdigitalradio/n7nix/tree/master/rmsgw)